multiple usb drives

[chuck lawrence]

greetings,

I've got an interesting problem.  I've got 3 external usb drives, all 
running thru a usb 2.0 pci card.  the first two (sda and sdb) are 
roughly the same vintage.  the most recent addition, a year later, is a 
larger, faster disk.

when I boot with them all on, the new disk wants to be sda, rather than 
sdc.  I surmise this may be because it's a faster disk, and registers 
first.  I was mounting volumes from the older disks in /etc/rc.local, 
but now must mount manually, powering up the new disk after booting. 
claerly this is less than ideal.

is this an inherent problem with multiple external usb drives?  I could 
reorder the mount sequence, but it makes me a bit wary that I can't 
control which disk is which.  should I not try to mount them at boot time?

adv(thanks)ance

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